Post #2766624
2023-08-07 07:29 UTC
@lkanies@hachyderm.io @slomo@toot.cat yep. In fact, umlauts used to be written as little superscript ‘e’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut_(diacritic)#/media/File%3AUmlaut_forms.png
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@lkanies@hachyderm.io 2023-08-07 16:42
@chucker@norden.social @slomo@toot.cat wow. I’ve never seen that. I first learned about the ae -> ä from a bar in Germany. It had a bunch of old street signs with words on them that I knew, but I also knew the current words used umlauts. So that was my first clue about how they used to be written, then I noticed the switching happen much more regularly.